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Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility (2024)
Book Chapter
Brown, A. T. (in press). Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility. In S. H. Rigby (Ed.), Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw's Legend in the Later Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer

Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875 (2024)
Book Chapter
Bennett, M. (2024). Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875. In K. Varley (Ed.), The Franco-Prussian War: Turning-Points in European Experiences and Perceptions of Military Conflict. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003336792-3

Almost as striking as the totality of German victory in the Franco-Prussian War is the paucity of contemporary observers who anticipated the result – particularly with an earlier, similarly stunning Prussian victory over Austria to judge by. Confusio... Read More about Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875.

Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections (2024)
Journal Article
Cheeseman, N., Kanyinga, K., Lynch, G., & Willis, J. (2024). Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections. Journal of Eastern African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2024.2359154

Kenya’s 2022 general elections saw – for only the second time in the country’s history – a transfer of power from a retiring president to a candidate that they had not backed. Moreover, despite accusations of electoral malpractice, the Supreme Court... Read More about Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections.

Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France (2024)
Journal Article
Greengrass, M., & Hamilton, T. (2024). Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France. The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2024.2346306

This article analyses a remarkable criminal trial which took place in early seventeenth-century France. In 1617, Gaspard de Monconys, son of a prominent judge in Lyon, was accused of committing sacrilege and theft in the basilica of Saint-Denis, and... Read More about Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France.

Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present (2024)
Book
Huzzey, R., Janse, M., Miller, H., Oddens, J., & Waddell, B. (in press). Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford: British Academy

Throughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power. Consol... Read More about Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present.

What is disability history the history of? (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. A. (2024). What is disability history the history of?. History Compass, 22(6), Article e12813. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12813

This article has two connected aims. First, to contour the boundaries of modern disability history through outlining its development and second, to provide a new methodological agenda for disability history. The design model of disability has outline... Read More about What is disability history the history of?.